Literacy Books

Institutiones Linguae Graecae est opus Clenardi, Nicolai, quod anno MDXLIX editum est. Hoc libro, Clenardus methodum docendi Graecam linguam exhibet, quae adhuc in scholis Christianis utitur. Libellus constat ex quinque partibus, quae omnes elementa...

This book studies thoroughly the peculiarities of using poetry in teaching English as a foreign language, emphasizing the most important issues and aspects the teacher has to take into account in his pedagogic activity. It overviews the phenomenon of...

This is a short story about Phil Spector. Phil Spector was one of the most enigmatic people that ever walked on planet earth. In musical terms he was in this writer's opinion and many musical experts an absolute genius, and he composed music for...

This poetry contains 218 beautiful modern poems in Chinese authored by Dr. Wenbo Sun, for love, natural scenery, life, politics, and Chinese culture, etc. It's an expression of the feeling of an immigrant to his home country, a description of the life in...

Current, comprehensive, and authoritative, this text gives language teachers and researchers, both a set of conceptual tools with which to think and talk about creativity in language teaching and a wealth of practical advice about principles and...

How can teachers ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice, and what has literacy got to do with this? This book explores the positive synergies between critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy. Through rich classroom research...

Shifting the discourse from a focus on academic language to the more dynamic but less researched construct of academic literacies, this volume addresses three key questions: • What constitutes academic literacy? • What does academic literacy development...

Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools-at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected-this timely book counters with a strong argument...

Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students' unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity...

David Nunan's dynamic learner-centered teaching style has informed and inspired countless TESOL educators around the world. In this fresh, straightforward introduction to teaching English to speakers of other languages he presents teaching techniques and...

English today is a global language embedded in a great variety of social contexts, resulting in linguistic and pedagogical variation. Taking a new look at the teaching and assessing of English as an international language (EIL), this text highlights...

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today's culture in which literacy...

Rebel Literacy is a look at Cuba's National Literacy Campaign of 1961 in historical and global contexts. The Cuban Revolution cannot be understood without a careful study of Cuba's prior struggles for national sovereignty. Similarly, an understanding of...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 16.1 (Fall 2021) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early...

A volume in Adult Education Special Topics: Theory, Research,and Practice in Lifelong LearningSeries Editor: Kathleen P. King, Fordham UniversityThis unique volume of writings by educators in the field working with women's literacy reveals the many ways...

Pro(se)letariets documents through memoir, poetry, and fiction a two year conversation held between working class writers in Syracuse, New York, and the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, United Kingdom, on how class background...

El Prontuario Orthologi-Graphico Trilingue En Que Se Ensena A Pronunciar, Escribir, Y Letrear Correctamente, En Latin, Castellano, Y Catalan (1742) escrito por Pedro Martyr Angles es un libro que ense�����a a pronunciar, escribir y deletrear...

Blast Off to Reading! is designed for children, ages 7-13, who are reading below grade level. This is for children who have dyslexia, speech delays, auditory processing disorder (APD), and other learning difficulties.This multisensory, Orton-Gillingham...

The well-known Giriraj Govt Degree College, Nizamabad, is situated in South Telangana and provides degree programs in Urdu. Teachers and research experts from universities around the nation gave presentations in a national conference titled "Urdu Culture...

L'anglais est devenu un mode de communication majeur. Il a une grande influence sur la vie politique, sociale, économique et culturelle de l'Inde. Il est utilisé dans l'administration, le système judiciaire, l'éducation et même à des fins littéraires en...

Feminism goes beyond advocating for women's rights and examines all aspects of life to identify oppressive elements. It recognizes women as a social category and aims for liberation, making it a political concept. Feminist literature reflects these...

Research across a number of disciplines has in recent years contributed to a rapidly developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. This book gathers together essays published during...

This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social levels of analysis, as well as the...

This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of 'discource'. • Discourse as 'talk-in-interaction', commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s. •...

This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies of language , literacy and learning. The subject of language ecology is diversity within socio-political settings where the processes of language use create,...

Kevin DiBacco's "Limericks: History, Humor, and How-To" presents a thorough examination of the limerick as both an art form and practical tool. The book traces the evolution of these five-line verses from their medieval monastic roots through Irish pub...

This book delves into the intriguing question of why certain types of literacy research gain more traction than others in educational settings, irrespective of the quality of the research or the efforts of the researchers.

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity and identity are reflected in New Zealand children's literature, based on the published research of Nicola Daly.

Instill a love of poetry in your classroom with the illuminating and inviting lessons from Teach This Poem. Co-published with the Academy of American Poets, the leading champion of poets and poetry in the US, this book is an accessible entry-point to...

Academic success for African American boys' in Special Education is frequently elusive as the United States continues to endure the legacy of academic discrimination (Blanchett, 2010; Skiba et al., 2008). Consequently, educational policies have not fully...

In the 21st century, information literacy emerges as the cornerstone of educational development. Despite its paramount significance, a stark reality persists - students often traverse the corridors of academia without acquiring essential information...

The underappreciation of the pivotal roles played by home, school, and community in shaping the literacy journey of individuals. While the mantra "Literacy begins at home" resonates, it often remains a mere platitude rather than a transformative force...

The role of literacy instruction extends far beyond traditional English language arts classrooms. Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction delves into the necessary concepts within the realm of literacy across and within...

The fields of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics often lack comprehensive resources that address the diverse range of developmental language disorders while also providing insights into effective treatments and special education approaches. Many...

Literary critics have argued over the status of women in the world and their self-development of their literary and cultural position in literary works. Women's oppression, self-complication, and self-recognition are worldly studied. In this respect,...

Many investigations have been conducted to examine the latent factors that may affect the writing performance of ESL/EFL learners. Among them, time has been identified as one of the major factors that may activate the limited attention capacity model...

Pragmatic competence is one of the aspects of language that involves knowledge beyond level of the grammar; therefore it could be taught in the class to increase students' capacity in using language in different social situations. The instructors and the...

Enseignement et apprentissage des langues Toute langue a ses spécificités. cependant, Tous les parlers ont des points communs, à savoi: les choses qui ont trait à l"environnement, des actions à accomplir au quotidien. il est question aussi des quatre...

De Baltische volkeren (de Baltische staten, de Balten) begonnen zich ongeveer aan het einde van het eerste millennium voor Christus te vormen, nadat ze van de Slavisch-Baltische gemeenschap waren weggevallen, voordat ze deel uitmaakten van de oude...

O livro não fala só do amor e do casamento humano. Ele revela o namoro e o enlace com Deus. E quando não namoramos, enamoramos. Somos tomados de revelação, proteção e misericórdia. Há arrependimento, depois de uma vida de traição. Um gozo espiritual. E...

Los cuentos de hadas son sin duda el paradigma de la globalidad. Existen en múltiples formatos desde su aparición como cuentos orales hasta versiones modernas en géneros variados (Picture Books, Anime, etc...) Los cuentos de hadas se han mutado y...

Papillon, el súper bestseller de la fuga de la Guayana francesa, ha sido plagiado. La autora de esta novela, Cecilia Schmucker, hija del protagonista, partiendo de la primicia del plagio aparecida en una famosa revista colombiana, acopia textos y...

At the threshold of the twentieth century, English and American poetry witnessed tremendous changes in form and content due to the influences of the two Great Wars, the Great Depression and the political conflicts that shaped the new ideologies and...

In recent studies, interpreting, as a main way for communication among people with different language, has attracted the attention of many researchers. Consecutive interpreting is one type of interpreting that requires skills such as target language...

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 17.1 (Fall 2022) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work outside mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood...

Examining what is involved in learning to write for academic purposes from a variety of perspectives, this book focuses in particular on issues related to academic writing instruction in diverse contexts, both geographical and disciplinary. Informed by...

This book contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades six, seven, and eight which incorporate research-based best practices of grammar instruction. Plans in this book seek to help teachers put best practices of grammar instruction into...